F for Fashion: A Collaborative and Multidisciplinary Project on Fake and Fashion

Authors

• Giulia Caffaro University of Bologna

  She is Ph.D. candidate at the Department for Life Quality Studies - University of Bologna.

  She graduated in Industrial Design from Turin Polytechnic and obtained a master's degree in Visual Arts from the University of Bologna with a multidisciplinary dissertation on the relationship between man and bicycle. In 2016 she obtained a 2nd level master in Euro project Design and Management 2020®. 

  In 2016, her thesis won the "Dario Ciapetti" prize promoted by the National Association of Virtuous Municipalities. In 2017 she won the scholarship concerning the research project: "S, M, L, XL. The 'size revolution' and the birth of the standard fashion system".

  Actually she focuses her research on the Gruppo GFT company, of which she studies the corporate exhibitions realized for Pitti Uomo during the 80s as media for the cultural legitimation of the ready-to-wear fashion.

  She writes blog reviews, interviews and critical texts about History of Design and Visual Arts.

  She is Editorial Assistant for ZoneModa Journal.